paunchy

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English paunch

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English paunchy

From paunch + -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːn(t)ʃi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔnt͡ʃi/, /ˈpɑnt͡ʃi/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːntʃi, -ɑːntʃi

Adjective

paunchy (comparative paunchier, superlative paunchiest)

1. Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied.

   Synonym: paunched

   He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age.

   • 1958, John M. Kays, Basic animal husbandry, page 269:

     A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.

   • 1976, Robert Herrick, Waste, Ayer Publishing, page 55:

     "They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat, paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh!"

   • 2002 December 15, Debra Galant, “JERSEY; She Loved Him, She Loved Him Not, She Loves Him”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     "I don't think personalities change," Bill said. "We get a little paunchier and we get a few wrinkles and a little gray hair. But you have the same personality."

   • 2018 October 7, Andrew R. Chow, “There Are Fat Bears in Alaska, and You Can Vote on Your Favorite”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park’s paunchiest are pitted against one another. Fans vote for their favorite bear in head-to-head matchups until the title of Fattest Bear is bestowed, this year on Tuesday.

Derived terms

• paunchily
• paunchiness

Translations

having a paunch

Azerbaijani: yekəqarın Bulgarian: шкембест (škembest), шкембелия (škembelija) Catalan: panxut, ventrut Finnish: möhömahainen Galician: barrigudo, bazuncho German: dickbäuchig (de) Greek: κοιλαράς (el) m (koilarás), προγάστωρ (el) m or f (progástor) Ancient Greek: προγάστωρ m or f (progástōr) Hindi: लंबोदर (hi) m (lambodar) Hungarian: pocakos (hu) Ingrian: pusattoi Irish: marógach Kabuverdianu: barigudu, barrigude Persian: گامبو (fa) (gâmbu) Plautdietsch: dikj Polish: brzuchaty (pl) Portuguese: barrigudo (pt) Russian: пуза́тый (ru) m (puzátyj) Spanish: panzón (es), panzudo (es), barrigudo (es), barrigón (es), guatón (es) (South America) Welsh: boliog (cy), cestog